Samsung thinks it’s fixed your 990 Pro SSD… and it’s probably right
If you’re quick enough
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Following earlierreportsthatSamsung’s 990 Prosolid state drives (SSDs) suddenly falling into poor health had reached the company, a fix is now available.
PC Gamerfound that a similar issue affectingSamsung 980 ProSSDs was also found and fixed earlier this month, making it a bad time to be the owner of the company’s high performanceM.2NVME drives.
Given that older firmware is reportedly killing drives en-masse, users with even a suspicion that they have a 980 Pro or 990 Pro in their configuration should download the latest firmware version fromSamsung’s free SSD performance toolMagician.
Samsung’s SSD woes
Beyond the issued updates, which come without any patch notes, Samsung has been less than forthcoming with support for affected users.
At the time of PC Gamer’s report, Samsung hadn’t officially acknowledged the issue for its 990 Pro SSDs in particular. This meant that, as according toNeowineditor Robbie Khan, the company could take him for a fool by claiming to have found “no defect” in his 990 Pro SSD and refusing to repair it.
Now that an official acknowledgement of the issue is here for (hopefully the only) affected drive models, users looking for outright replacements for their drives should have an easier time of getting them.
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That could be crucial, given that, perTom’s Hardware, the firmware update is preventing damage to SSDs, but not reversing it.
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The good news is that fixes are here and they couldn’t be easier to apply. The bad news is that the issues could go on to affect other drives (this 970 Pro owner is keeping a close eye out), and firmware fixes may not be enough for some.
Luke Hughes holds the role of Staff Writer at TechRadar Pro, producing news, features and deals content across topics ranging from computing to cloud services, cybersecurity, data privacy and business software.
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